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ALFOLDY, Sandra. McGill-Queen's/Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation Studies in Art HistoryAllied Arts : Architecture and Craft in Postwar Canada.McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal & Kingston, 2012, ISBN:9780773540033 ALFOLDY, Sandra. The Allied Arts : Architecture and Craft in Postwar Canada. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queens University Press, (2012). Pp. (10),[xi]-xv,(9) of illustrations,[1]-227,(1). Illustrated, sometimes in colour. Large 8vo, illustrated blue and green card covers with white spine, yellow and white lettering to front cover, black lettering to spine, french flaps.A volume in the McGill-Queen's/Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation Studies in Art History series. "During periods of close collaboration, championed by figures like John Ruskin and William Morris, architecture and craft were referred to as 'the allied arts'. By the mid-twentieth century, however, it was more common for the two disciplines to be considered distinct professional fields, with architecture having little to do with studio craft. 'The Allied Arts' investigates the history of the complex relationship between craft and architecture by examining their intersection in Canadian public buildings. Sandra Alfoldy explains the challenges facing the development of public craft and documents the largely ignored public craft commissions of the post-war era. The book highlights theg global concerns of material, scale, form, ornament, and identity shared by architects and craftspeople. It alsostudies the ways in which the allied arts are mediated by institutions and the fragility of craft commissions that were once considered an integral p art of the built environment. Considering a wide range of craftspeople, materials, and forms -- from the ceramics of Jack Sures and Jordi Bonet to thetextile work of Mariette Rousseau-Vermette and Carole Sabiston -- Alfoldy celebrates the successes of architectural craftsmanship, developing ideas about the complex relationship between architecture and craft that reach well beyond national boundaries." - from the rear cover. Very good. 30.00

ALLEN, Madelene FergusonWake of the Invercauld. in dj. McGill-Queens UP, 1997, ISBN:0-7735-1688-3 ALLEN, Madelene Ferguson. Wake of the Invercauld: Shipwrecked in the Sub-Antarctic: a great-grandaughter's pilgrimage. Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queens UP, (1997). Pp 256. Illustrated. 4to, blue cloth. "Robert Holding, a young English adventurer, was only 23 when in 1864 he was shipwrecked with 19 others on the windswept, inhospitable Auckland Islands in the sub-Antarctic Ocean south of New Zealand. By the time he was rescued a year later, only two of his shipmates were taken off the island with him, the rest having perished from starvation and exposure. This is the extraordinary story of how the three survived, and why their companions did not." -from the dj. Vg in slightly torn dj. 40.00

ANDREW, Caroline and Sanda RODGERS, eds. RODGERS, Sanda, ed.Women and the Canadian State / Les femmes et l'Etat canadien. First Edition, hardcover.McGill-Queens University Press, Montreal and Kingston, 1997, ISBN:0773514236 ANDREW, Caroline and Sanda RODGERS, eds. Women and the Canadian State / Lesfemmes et l'État canadien . Edited by Caroline Andrew and Sanda Rodgers. M ontreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, (1997). First Edition. Pp. (4),[v]-xxvii,(1),[1]-364. 8vo, red cloth with black lettering to front and spine. Contents: 1. Lorenne M.G. Clark's "Reminiscences and Reflections on the Twentieth Anniversary of the Commission's Report"; 2. Monique Begin's "The Canadian Government and the Commission's Report"; 3. Freda L. Paltiel's "State Initiatives: Impetus and Effects"; 4. Catherine Frazee's "Do State Initiatives Make a Difference?"; 5. Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafrond's "Patriarchy and Paternalism: The Legacy of the Canadian State for First Nations Women"; 6. Wendy Moss's "The Canadian State and Indian Women: The Struggle for Sex Equality Under the Indian Act"; 7. Teressa Anne Nahanee's "IndianWomen, Sex Equality, and the Charter"; 8. Mary Jane Mossman's "Families an d Family Law": 9. Carol Smart's "Feminist Interventions and State Policy"; 10. Nancy Sullivan's "Pay Equity in Manitoba"; 11. Pat Armstrong's "Pay Equity: Not Just a Matter of Money"; 12. Marie Murphy's "Pay Equity in Quebec"; 13. Diane Lamoureux's "Les services féministes - de l'antiétatisme à l'intégration subsidiaire"; 14. Jane Ursel's "Considering the Impact of the Battered Women's Movement on the State: The Example of Manitoba"; 15. Martha Flaherty's "Inuit Women and Violence"; 16. Florence Bird's "Reminiscences ofthe Commission Chair"; 17. Maureen O'Neil and Sharon Sutherland's "The Mac hinery of Women's Policy: Implementing the RCSW"; 18. Naomi Alboim's "Institutional Structure as Change Agent: An Analysis of the Ontario Women's Directorate"; 19. Marie Lavigne's "Structures institutionnelles en condition féminine - le cas du Conseil du statut de la femme du Québec"; 20. Nitya Iyer's "Disappearing Women: Racial-Minority Women in Human Rights Cases"; 21. Joanne St. Lewis's "The Entire Woman: Immigrant and Visible-Minority Women";22. Maria de Koninck's "Les femmes et l'État - questions de santé reproduc tive"; 23. Dyane Adam's "L'État et les groupes de femmes: un partenariat pour le meilleur ... our pour le pire?"; 24. Jane Jenson's "Competing Representations: The Politics of Abortion in Canada"; 25. Claire Bonenfant's "Les femmes et l'État canadien". "Canadians Can No Longer Expect As Much From Their Governments. Rights formerly guaranteed by our 'welfare state' are disappearing. Social spending has been cut drastically in an attempt to combat recession, globalization and restructuring, and the deficit.The decline of the welfare state poses special risks for women. The policies, benefits, and services of the welfare state are directly linked to women's basic freedoms. The welfare state employs women to deliver services such as childcare, home-help, nursing, and social work. In turn, these services have meant that women can enter the paid labour force, provide for dependants, and leave abusive relationships. Access to political resources have helped women to form solidarities, alliances, and organizations. In Women and the Canadian Welfare State, scholars from environmental studies, law, social work, sociology, and economics explore the changing relationship between women and the welfare state. They examine the transformation of the welfare state and itsimplications for women; key issues in welfare state debates such as social rights, family and dependency, and gender-neutral programs and inequality; women's work and the state; and the role of women as agents of change.Wome n and the Canadian Welfare State explains not only how women are affected by changes in policy and programming, but how they can take an active role in shaping these changes. It bridges an important gap for scholars and students who are interested in gender, public policy, and the welfare state." Very good. 40.00

ARSENAULT, Chris.Blowback : A Canadian History of Agent Orange and the War at Home.Fernwood Publishing, Halifax & Winnipeg , 2009, ISBN:9781552662960 ARSENAULT, Chris. Blowback : A Canadian History of Agent Orange and the Warat Home. Halifax & Winnipeg : Fernwood Publishing, (2009). Second Printing . Pp (8),1-115,(5). Illustrated. Map. Index. 8vo, illustrated card covers. "The village of Enniskillen, a sleepy cluster of a few dozen houses in New Brunswick’s Queens County, has never been invaded by a foreign power. But during the 1950s to 1970s, the village was ground zero for a different kind of offensive, this one launched by the American and Canadian military against its own people with the deadly dioxin Agent Orange. Between 1956 and 1984 the Canadian military and its private subcontractors sprayed more than 1 million litres of rainbow herbicides around New Brunswick. The American military was invited to test Agent Purple and other toxins on Canadian soil after the chemicals had been banned by the U.S. Congress. This is the story of a war coming home; a story of the military and economic currents that allowed Agent Orange to blow through trees and into rivers in New Brunswick. More than anything, it’s a story of soldiers, civilians and local residents who blew back against the government and companies who poisoned them." - from the back cover. Very good. 9.00

ARSENAULT, Chris.Blowback : A Canadian History of Agent Orange and the War at Home.Fernwood Publishing, Halifax & Winnipeg, 2009, ISBN:9781552662960 ARSENAULT, Chris. Blowback : A Canadian History of Agent Orange and the Warat Home. Halifax & Winnipeg : Fernwood Publishing, (2009). First Printing. Pp (8),1-115,(5). Illustrated. Map. Index. 8vo, illustrated card covers. " The village of Enniskillen, a sleepy cluster of a few dozen houses in New Brunswick’s Queens County, has never been invaded by a foreign power. But during the 1950s to 1970s, the village was ground zero for a different kind of offensive, this one launched by the American and Canadian military against its own people with the deadly dioxin Agent Orange. Between 1956 and 1984the Canadian military and its private subcontractors sprayed more than 1 m illion litres of rainbow herbicides around New Brunswick. The American military was invited to test Agent Purple and other toxins on Canadian soil after the chemicals had been banned by the U.S. Congress. This is the story ofa war coming home; a story of the military and economic currents that allo wed Agent Orange to blow through trees and into rivers in New Brunswick. More than anything, it’s a story of soldiers, civilians and local residents who blew back against the government and companies who poisoned them." - from the back cover. Review copy stamp (with penned reviewer name and price), else very good. 10.00

BAIRD, FrankParson John of the Labrador: A story which tells also of the exciting adventures of Boy Number Nine, Tom Badd, and other bold charactersReligious Tract Society, 0, BAIRD, Frank. Parson John of the Labrador: A story which tells also of the exciting adventures of Boy Number Nine, Tom Badd, and other bold characters. Illustrated by George Soper. L.: Religious Tract Society, n.d. Pp (4),[5]-246,(10), frontis.+ 7 plates. 8vo, green cloth. Frank Baird (b.January 8, 1870 Chipman, Queens County, New Brunswick - d. June 22, 1951, Fredericton). O'Dea 1784, Watters p.241, Rhodenizer p.418, Laugher p.18. Not in Cooke &Caron. A novel with 13 chapters including: Into a Strange New Land; Shelte ring Hand Harbour; Lost in the Fog; "Up the Bottom"; Caught in the Ice; &c.Lacking flyleaf, else very good, bright. 60.00

BAIRD, FrankParson John of the Labrador: A story which tells also of the exciting adventures of Boy Number Nine, Tom Badd, and other bold charactersReligious Tract Society, 0, BAIRD, Frank. Parson John of the Labrador: A story which tells also of the exciting adventures of Boy Number Nine, Tom Badd, and other bold characters. Illustrated by George Soper. London: Religious Tract Society, n.d. Pp (4),[5]-246,(10), frontispiece + 7 plates. 8vo, green cloth with gilt lettering to front and spine. Frank Baird (b.January 8, 1870 Chipman, Queens County, New Brunswick - d. June 22, 1951, Fredericton). O'Dea 1784, Watters p.241, Rhodenizer p.418, Laugher p.18. Not in Cooke & Caron. A novel with 13 chapters including: Into a Strange New Land; Sheltering Hand Harbour; Lost in the Fog; "Up the Bottom"; Caught in the Ice; &c. Light spotting near fore-edge on front board, slightly cocked, name, light shelfwear, else very good.55.00

BARTLETT, Brian. Hugh MacLennan Poetry Series)Afterlife of Trees. First Editin, paperback.McGill-Queens University Press, Montreal, 2002, ISBN:0773519106 BARTLETT, Brian. The Afterlife of Trees . Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queens University Press, (2002). First Printing. Pp. (6),[vii]-ix,(3),3-100,(2).8vo, illustrated blue card covers with french flaps. A volume in The Hugh MacLennan Poetry Series. The third collection of poems by the Nova Scotian author. "Brian Bartlett's poems, both pithy and expansive, bridge nature and human society, humour and elegy. Ranging from Buster Keaton films to a miniature Taj Mahal, from a celebration of sloths to an ironic look at the new millennium, from an urban garden to a ferry at sea, these poems tell stories and sing, question and praise." from the front flap. Sparse pencilling,else very good. Due to its small size, shipping costs should be a bit chea per than was quoted.. 10.00

BARTLETT, Brian. Hugh MacLennan Poetry Series)Afterlife of Trees. First Edition, paperback, signed.McGill-Queens University Press, Montreal, 2002, ISBN:0773519106 BARTLETT, Brian. The Afterlife of Trees . Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queens University Press, (2002). First Printing. Pp. (6),[vii]-ix,(3),3-100,(2).8vo, illustrated blue card covers with french flaps. A volume in The Hugh MacLennan Poetry Series. The third collection of poems by the Nova Scotian author. "Brian Bartlett's poems, both pithy and expansive, bridge nature and human society, humour and elegy. Ranging from Buster Keaton films to a miniature Taj Mahal, from a celebration of sloths to an ironic look at the new millennium, from an urban garden to a ferry at sea, these poems tell stories and sing, question and praise." from the front flap. Very good. Signed and dated by Bartlett on the title page. Due to its small size, shipping costs should be a bit cheaper than was quoted. 15.00

BAYLEY, C.C.Mercenaries for the Crimea : The German, Swiss, and Italian Legions in British Service, 1854-1856. in dj.McGill-Queens University Press, Montreal and London, 1977, ISBN:0773502734 BAYLEY, C.C. Mercenaries for the Crimea : The German, Swiss, and Italian Legions in British Service, 1854-1856 . Montreal and London: McGill-Queens University Press, 1977. Pp. (4),[v]-viii,[1]-197,(1). 8vo, black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. "The more dramatic episodes of the Crimean War havenever lacked historians, but less attention has been paid to the unspectac ular but crucial problem of recruiting for the army which confronted British ministries in 1854-55. This book is the first detailed and comprehensive account of the attempt to find a partial solution of the problem by the traditional method of foreign recruiting. The attempt was abortive and the venerable custom of enlisting and subsidizing troops on the Continent proved to be one of the ultimate casualties of the war." -from the dj. Contents: 1.Army Recruiting before the Crimean War; 2. The Search for Allies; 3. The S earch for Recruits; 4. The Foreign Enlistment Bill (origins, Parliamentary debate on the Bill); 5. Press and Public Opinion on the Bill; 6. Preparations for Foreign Recruiting (Germany, Switzerland, Sardinia); 7. Problems of Foreign Recruiting (Germany, Italy, Switzerland); 8. The Period of Trainingand Service; 9. Disbandment (Swiss Legion, German Legion, Italian Legion); 10. Conclusion. With numerous appendices, including a short survey of fore ign recruitment post-Napoleon, lists of officers in the German, Italian, and Swiss Legions, among others. Very good in sticker-ghosted dust jacket. 50.00

BENZAQUEN, Adriana S.Encounters with Wild Children : Temptation and Disappointment in the Study of Human Nature. signed in dj. McGill-Queens University Press, Montreal and Kingston, 2006, ISBN:9780773529724 BENZAQUEN, Adriana S. Encounters with Wild Children : Temptation and Disappointment in the Study of Human Nature . Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queens University Press, (2006). Pp. (4),[v]-vi,[1]-393,(1). With a couple of textual illustrations. 8vo, black paper covered board with gilt lettering to spine. "Today, wild children inspire moral questions about why we include or exclude others from our modern conception of the human. 'Encounters With Wild Children' offers an analysis of what wild chldren tell us about how human beings relate to outsiders and the historical process of socializing the unsocial." - from the dj. Vg in dj. Signed and inscribed by Benzaquen on the ffep. 30.00

BINKLEY, MarianRisks, Dangers, and Rewards in the Nova Scotia Offshore Fishery. First Edition in dustjacket.McGill-Queens University Press, Montreal & Kingston, 1995, ISBN:0773513132 BINKLEY, Marian. Risks, Dangers, and Rewards in the Nova Scotia Offshore Fishery. Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queens University Press, (1995). First Edition. Pp (8),[ix]-xi,(5),[3]-192,(2). Tables and a few illustrations in the text. 8vo, blue cloth, silver lettering to spine. "According to Labour Canada, workers in the offshore fishery are more likely to be injured than workers in mining, construction, or forestry. Yet until recently these casualties at sea have been largely Ignored by government and labour organizations. Risks, Dangers, and Rewards in the Nova Scotia Offshore Fishery describes the hidden cost paid by workers in the Nova Scotia offshore fishery, a cost measured not in dollars and cents but in deaths and injuries. In this comprehensive evaluation of the Nova Scotia offshore fishery Marian Binkley documents the level of risk and assesses the general health and stress levels of workers in the industry. She considers shipboard working environment;stress; accidents, injuries, and general health; safety awareness, job sat isfaction and family life; and the impact on working conditions of government resource policies and companies' scientific management strategies. Usingstatistical analysis, participant observation, surveys, and both formal an d informal interviews, Binkley establishes that factors such as home and community life and the unforeseen consequences of changes in technology and management of the fishery affect the immediate work experience of fishers and can increase the dangers of an already hazardous occupation. " -from the dj. Chapters: 1. Introduction; 2. Theoretical Considerations; 3. Working Conditions; 4. The Social Context: Wives and Families; 5. Job Satisfaction; 6. Trading Off Wages and Nonmonetary Benefits; 7. Counting the Dangers; 8. The Stress and Strain of Fishing; 9. Safety Awareness; 10. Toward a Safer Fishery. With notes, glossary, references and an index. A few pencil notes and a few red pencil marks, else very good in dustjacket. 20.00

BISHOP, Elizabeth). PICKARD, Zachariah.Elizabeth Bishop's Poetics of Description. First Edition in dustjacket.McGill-Queens University Press, Montreal & Kingston, 2009, ISBN:9780773535053 (BISHOP, Elizabeth). PICKARD, Zachariah. Elizabeth Bishop's Poetics of Description. Montreal & Kingston, London, Ithaca: McGill-Queen's University Press, (2009). First Printing. Pp. (8),[ix]-x,(2),[1]-212. 8vo, black paper covered board with silver lettering to spine. "Many readers are struck by Elizabeth bishop's use of clear, striking descriptions of the physical world, but no scholar has ever analysed how Bishop's commitment to description shapes her writing and thinking. 'Elizabeth Bisop's Poetics of Description' argues that attention to the material realm informs everything Bishop does. Seen through the lens, many familiar topics look remarkably different. Bishop's relationship to travel, epiphany, surrealism, and imagery are all transformed and a timely new Bishop emerges -- one quite different from the postmodern poet that has dominated recent scholarship. Zachariah Picard eschewsacademic jargon and concentrates on the poems themselves as well as on a n umber of key prose passages that have long been overlooked. His study combines scholarly rigor with clarity and common sense to present a moving new account of Bishop's work that will appeal to educated readers within and without the academy." - from the dustjacket. Very good in crisp dustjacket. 50.00